HATE HATE HATE

I hate every digital design engineer who ever lived. I hate Bill Gates. I hate DirecTV. I hate Samsung and Maxtor and JVC. Given the opportunity I would kill with my bare hands any of the people who ushered in this so-called digital age. Nothing works, nothing lasts, nothing can be diagnosed or fixed. Nothing is worth even dismantling if it fails, and it will fail very early in its life with no warning and leave no recourse. The products I mentioned at the beginning are just the ones that failed in my house today; there are dozens of others that have already failed that I threw in the garbage long ago and my house is filled with dozens more that tomorrow or next week or next month will fail with no warning and no recourse. If you make your living in the digital domain, drop dead. I am now adding to my list of people I hate all digital promoters, afficionados, workers and devotees. The list before now was mainly republicans, police, gov't bureaucrats, human resource employees, financial speculators and doctors.
I am so filled with hate right now for all these horrible people who have ruined the world and hurt me personally that I could explode with my blood and fluids all over the keyboard and monitor. The resulting short circuits would in turn damage the computer irreparably and there we are full circle. A tiny bit of justice. I went outside just before supper to take a sledge hammer to a stupid little toy product made by Samsung that pretended to be a DVD recorder. It might have made ten DVDs in its two year life span but it destroyed several times that of blank disks with a range of indecipherable digital code errors displayed on the screen from which there is no recovery. There is no comprehension or assistance or analysis or reversal or any of the normal avenues a reasonable person would expect to have available when the little brain inside this silly box locks up. You just throw away the thing you spent two hours making and start over. At the end of those two hours, you might be successful. But you won't know until you try and when you fail, Samsung laughs at you.
Earlier today, the external hard drive that promotes itself as the backup device to trust in the event your main computer fails, failed. Over a thousand digital pictures of my friends, my house, my cars, my dogs, my husband, my family and sunsets and lakes and mountains and lightning are gone. I might be able to get some of them back if I go in to best buy and pay them $90 to try and extract them. Failing that, I can send it to San Diego and pay $400 to have the drive platters removed and put into a new control case. Maxtor and Seagate are digital terrorists and they deserve to die for putting people in this spot with their bad machines.
If you have any Maxtor or JVC or Samsung or DirecTV boxes in your house, destroy them before they destroy you. And if you ever meet somebody at a party who works for any of these companies or their competitors, smash them in the face with your fist or any nearby solid object. I know that is what I will do the next time I encounter any of these people who have killed the machine age and brought us to the brink of madness in the digital age.